iOS 18: These Apple Intelligence Features Won't Be Ready Until 2025

[Frantisekj]

Given Apple is pushing for on-device/ hybrid model, I venture to guess we won’t see anything substantial until at least 2026, and possibly 2027, after they are able to gather data on what users are doing with it and stressing the system. By then, they will have optimized the architecture and have more CPU headroom to work with.

And by that time they will announce new revolutionary AI version that is unfortunately incompatible with older devices because lack of RAM 😂

 

[bgarnett]

Yep - amazing what you can do when you dismiss concerns like privacy, security, copyrights, trademarks, data ownership, or how NOT to monetize every aspect of a tool.

Most fast and break things...We have learned nothing from Web 2.0.

The "young blood" you seek will be the Alphas who will have been forbidden from bringing phones into their classrooms, won't have spent 8 hours a day on TikTok, and will be tasked with cleaning up this Zellenial mess.

Me...I can wait a few months until Apple gets most of "AI" right, even if it remains limited in scope (which it will be...and should be).

I would say that Apple has become cautious with design, boring actually, nothing truly changes. The company doesn’t really take a risk, this doesn’t mean taking a risk with our data or devices, but rather trying to be first at things. Instead, it follows and then seeks to improve upon.

The company needs an injection of new blood, those who are going to push the boundaries rather than stay within what’s safe and already known.

When my friends make comments like this I usually tell them “become a developer, work for Apple, learn AI coding and Privacy and security hardening across multiple systems including ones not made by your own coding since no one else is doing it correctly, then pass judgement or compare Apple with other ridiculous companies with half-baked garbage.”

To which I say complacency. Siri - they’ve thought this was good enough, yet users have said for the longest while it is garbage. Agree security etc is essential, and I like what Apple proposes with Apple Intelligence to protect its users’ data, however, I’d say a measure of complacency has allowed them to get caught out here and they are reliant on others to hold them up to have any hope of service that also won’t likely be out till next year.

 

[UltimaKilo]

And by that time they will announce new revolutionary AI version that is unfortunately incompatible with older devices because lack of RAM 😂

RAM has no impact on computation.

 

[EponymousHoward]

It seems like every year for the last 3 or 4 years, Apple has gotten worse about announcing features that people have to wait longer and longer to get. I would prefer Apple not announce features that aren't ready for release.

I was announced at a developers' conference, not a phone launch. It is to get developers working on it, not phone salesmen.

 

[iChriscr]

Not sure why Apple is talking about Type to Siri as a new feature. I’ve been using for two years.

 

[Ledsteplin]

What will be urge for people to update for AI ability in September if the main features aren't coming to next year with the next phone release? I think the WWDC announcement was misleading. I will watch again to make sure.

I don't recall this report saying next year with the next phone release. Just says next year in 2025 in an update. Could be in January for all we know. My guess is by April.

 

[applepotato666]

Not sure why Apple is talking about Type to Siri as a new feature. I’ve been using for two years.

It's the quick access to it through double tapping the home bar. Holding down the side button will still make it listen, unlike the current Type to Siri method. I hope they bring that over to all devices because it's easier to use. I enabled it on my 15 through modding a backup.

 

[JimmyHook]

while I tend to agree I think there are some very serious issues that bear examination. The weird and capricious app review and approval process, the blackhole that is the radarr bug reporting feedbacck mechanism. Maybe if they were a little more forthcoming and transparent there would be more good will and benefit of the doubt

What does app review and approval have to do with Apple’s internal release schedule???

 

[JimmyHook]

RAM has no impact on computation.

RAM is actually one of the factors for why it’s not coming to older devices. It’s a function of the ANE, bandwidth, and RAM. These new AI features are computationally expensive, and require a lot of resources. It would run very slow on an iPhone 14 Pro.

 

[Frantisekj]

Not sure why Apple is talking about Type to Siri as a new feature. I’ve been using for two years.

If you will be able trigger Siri and talk or write it will be new. As of now I guess you have to set Siri to written regime or can edit what you said when in normal spoken regime.

 

[Turbonow]

As a photographer, I'm really concerned AI may bring the end of photography as we know. The more AI integrates with daily use, sooner this tipping point arrives. Casual audience may not distinguish if the photo (or video) is authentic or purely created by AI, or sort of a mix. Today, an educated eye may still guess, yet we don't know how future will be shaped.

We can already do it by Midjourney software (or other ones) to some extent. Soon, you will tell some powerful AI app just vocally to "make a photo of milky way taken inside a sea cave" and voila, your 9000 x 6000 pixel super detailed photo will be ready in a few seconds! Then you'll be allowed to make fine trims, like saying "cave entrance should look wider, please craggy edges for more drama, milky way more purple hues rather than blue, insert a long haired blonde girl facing sideways & lit by soft light, etc." Fun for thought, but it will come with many consequences.

The more technical gap closes with standard true photography, it will be nearer to kill the motivation of true photography. People will start not the bother all the difficulties & equipment expenses and prefer the easier AI way. The notion of uniqueness and essence of documenting will probably fade away.

Then who will be the owner (artist) of these visuals? The AI app? Or whoever runs the app? Who? Where will the image be about? Nowhere... or a blend from similar places across the planet.

Hope the opposite happens. Documenting with unique human artistic concern should be more praised in the abundancy of AI imagery.

 

[KurtWilde]

As a photographer, I'm really concerned AI may bring the end of photography as we know. The more AI integrates with daily use, sooner this tipping point arrives. Casual audience may not distinguish if the photo (or video) is authentic or purely created by AI, or sort of a mix. Today, an educated eye may still guess, yet we don't know how future will be shaped.

We can already do it by Midjourney app to some extent. Soon, you will tell some AI app just vocally to "make a photo of milky way taken inside a seaside cave" and voila, your 9000 x 6000 pixel super detailed photo will be ready in a few seconds! Then you'll be allowed to make fine trims, like saying "cave entrance should look wider, please more craggy edges for more drama, milky way more purple hues rather than blue, insert a long haired blonde girl facing sideways & lit by soft light, etc." Fun for thought, but it will come with many consequences.

The more technical gap closes with standard true photography, it will be nearer to kill the motivation of true photography. People will start not the bother all the difficulties & equipment expenses and prefer the easier AI way. The notion of uniqueness and essence of documenting will probably fade away.

Then who will be the owner (artist) of these visuals? The AI app? Or whoever runs the app? Who? Where will the image be about? Nowhere... or a blend from similar places across the planet.

Hope the opposite happens. Documenting with unique human artistic concern should be more praised in the abundancy of AI imagery.

Even beyond outright fabrication, computational photography has changed what it means to take a picture.